This historical publication was produced by Abt Associates Inc. under contract with HUD to assess the need for quality requirements in a direct cash assistance program, define options for the design of the program, and the enforcement of quality requirements. The paper is broken into two parts: 1) considers the national or local codes as an option for housing quality requirements, the likely failure rates that may result from the use and enforcement of housing codes, and the option of codes as the program housing quality requirements; 2) considers formulating independent program quality requirements.

This report is part of the collection of scanned historical documents available to the public.